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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

William Butler Yeats

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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Morning Myself Peace Sing Slow
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Build Inspirational Reality Unity Yourself
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Battle Character Dreams Fight Fools Inspirational Life Lose Myself Need Night Party Soul Win
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Break Center Hold
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Business Head Heart World
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself

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